Chinese-Funded And Staffed Cannabis Grows Springing Up Across United States
Last summer, New Mexico state special agents inspecting a farm found thousands more cannabis plants than state laws allow. Then on subsequent visits, they made another unexpected discovery: dozens of underfed, shell-shocked Chinese workers. The workers said they had...
Detroit City Councilwoman Seeks To Ban Or Restrict Cannabis Billboards
Billboards advertising marijuana dispensaries have become nearly ubiquitous along Michigan's highways and some local streets, and at least one elected leader wants to curtail the ads within the state's largest city. Detroit City Councilwoman Angela Whitfield Calloway...
GOP Congressional Panel Moves To Block Marijuana Rescheduling While Amending Medical Cannabis Rider With Penalties For Sales Near Schools
A GOP-controlled congressional committee has unveiled a key spending bill that contains a provision to block marijuana rescheduling, while also amending a longstanding rider protecting medical cannabis states from federal interference by adding new language to...
Cleveland’s Rock ‘n’ Roll ‘Record Rendezvous’ Gets New Life As Cannabis Shop
Akron-based Klutch Cannabis, a Midwest vertically integrated cannabis company recently announced it was awarded two provisional dispensary licenses and is set to open a shop on Prospect Avenue in Cleveland on the exact spot where Cleveland’s...
Electric Forest Review By LaTrisha Matson For Sparx Guide
LaTrisha Matson has joined Sparx Guide as the social media coordinator. She has a wealth of experience in social media and also event planning. She also provided a review of Electric Forest that took place the weekend of June 22. Mother Nature was not kind to the...
Las Vegas’ Pioneering Cannabis-Friendly Hotel, The Lexi, Quietly Hits The Market Again
The Lexi Hotel in Las Vegas, a trailblazer in cannabis-friendly hospitality, is on the market once more. Known initially as the Artisan, this unique property has taken another turn in its storied history of transformations and financial...
Ohio Receives 235 Recreational Marijuana License Applications
The Ohio Division of Cannabis Control has received 235 applications thus far from businesses hoping to either land recreational marijuana retail permits or add that feature to their existing medical cannabis shops. Some of the applications have already been...
Ohio Helps Make Michigan No. 1 In Cannabis Product Sales For Now
Michigan’s nearly $3.2 billion recreational marijuana market is bolstered by the tens of thousands of customers from Ohio who can get to Monroe Township’s so-called “green mile” off I-75, just 11 miles north of the border. But some of those sales could return to Ohio...
Ohio Senate Wants To Tighten Marijuana Home Grow Rules, Crack Down On Delta-8 THC
Ohio's Senate Republicans are moving to tighten home cultivation rules for cannabis in a recently introduced senate bill that would also create new regulations for the sale of delta-8 THC, a compound derived from hemp. Advocates say the GOP-dominated senate is...
Ohio Cannabis Festival July 27 Hiring Joint-Rolling Judges At High Hourly Rate
As an Ohio cannabis festival prepares for launch, it’s also looking to make multiple hires with a high pay grade. The Stargazer Cannabis Festival, weeks away from its inaugural three-day run at Wisteria Campground, is taking place in the first full year that Ohio...
